Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1800s, the sport of Haitian rulers was slaughtering Dominicans; in the 1930s, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo methodically killed some 15,000 Haitian squatters on his land. Now Duvalier is getting in his licks. Dominican nationals in Haiti have been-jailed and savagely beaten; others have disappeared without a trace. One Dominican diplomat was murdered. The Haitian border has been closed to Dominicans for months, and there are persistent reports that members of the Trujillo clan are plotting with Duvalier to assassinate the newly elected Bosch. "There is a conspiracy in Haiti against our democratic government," warned Bosch last week...
...build. But when a gyro is used steadily for days or weeks at a time, it tends to drift from its proper direction, usually because of friction in its bearings and other supporting parts. Even though that friction can be reduced almost to the vanishing point, the least trace of a rub can make the gyro drift...
Before the suspended sphere can work as a gyroscope, almost every trace of air must be pumped out of the cavity. Then a set of coils creates a rotating magnetic field that spins the sphere like an electric motor. When the rotor reaches a speed of 30,000 r.p.m., the power is shut off and the sphere spins on for weeks or months without appreciable slowing...
...plays many leads: as the one man ultimately responsible for all the surgery done at the Brigham by scores of highly trained surgeons; as secretary of Harvard's joint surgical departments, covering five hospitals; as director of a many faceted research program. There is even a trace of the thespian in the way he lectures-never still, always holding the students' eyes as well as their minds, somehow managing to draw a laugh with such lines as "the brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous...
...Jack Bleeck sold out to a couple of Manhattan restaurateurs and retired. The name is the same, but not the clientele. "Buyers and lacquered models from the garment center outnumber newspapermen," said the New York Times last week, with a trace of regret. "There are more dress designers than cartoonists. Some of the current waiters even speak unaccented English...